Jim Donahue

Bob Parker

NYPD Whistle Blowers Testify In Stop-Frisk Trial

Officer Pedro Serrano and other whistle blowers took the stand in a civil rights case challenging some of the 5 million street stops made by police in the past decade using a tactic known as stop and frisk.

U.S. Border Patrol Team Wins 2007 5.11 Challenge

The finals for the 2007 5.11 Challenge were the closest in the competition's four-year history. After eight weeks of competitive shooting in Montana, the two-man U.S. Border Patrol team from Alamogordo, N.M., squeezed out first place with the last shot of the event.

Shots Fired: Old Saybrook, Connecticut 05•03•2005

The sight that greeted Bergantino momentarily took him aback. Beyond the threshold stood a man as naked to the world as when he'd first entered it some 50 years before. It was not a pretty sight.

Collateral Damage

This April we commemorated the 20-year anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. And the repercussions from that day have reached farther than anyone could have expected. The aftereffects are just as real in the lives of some today as if they were present when the homemade bomb in the Ryder truck exploded. The bombing even wrecked the life of one of the conspirators' children, who himself was innocent of the crime.

Jury Backs Boston Police Detectives in Rights Suit

A federal jury all but cleared yesterday two former Boston police detectives who were sued for allegedly violating the civil rights of Shawn Drumgold in the 1988 fatal shooting of 12-year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore, one of the city's most notorious homicides.

Communication Breakdown

Last Month Utah paid a lawyer and his client $40,000. The lawyer represented Jared Massey, a 20-something-year-old Vernal resident. Massey's cause of action was that a state trooper named Jon Gardner had used excessive force and thereby violated his civil rights by shocking him twice with a TASER during a Sept. 14 traffic stop.

Brandon Griffith